Improved canopy for bedsteads



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AUGUSTA M. BODGERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

` Letters .Patent No. 101,165, dated March 22, 1870.

IMPROVED CANOPY FO BEDSTEADS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent Vand making part of the same.

which my invention appertaius to fully understand and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings which make part of this speciiication, and in which- Figure l is au elevation of `my improved canopy Figure 2 is a sectional view in line x x, fig. 3;

Figure 3 is a top view of the frame. supporting the net-work; and

Figures 4 and 5 are detached views of parts of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

My invention is an improvement ou the canopy forv which letters patent were granted to me on the 11th day of May, 1869; and

tconsists in the arrangement ou the disk to which 'the arms are secured of a series of guidingloops, rings, or equivalent devices, so that the cords which lift the net will be united at one point and drawn simultaneously.

-It also consists iu combining therewith a disk which is to be permanently secured to the ceiling.

It iinally4 consists in a combination of various parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

. In the drawings- A represents a disk, having a suitable number of holes, a, in its periphery, and an equal number of guide-rings or loops, b, screwed into or otherwise suitably attached to the lower surface of disk A, in position corresponding to the holes a.

Radial arms B are iitted to eut-er the holes a, and are provided at the under side of their outer ends with guide-ringsor loops c, directly under which the net O is provided with perpendicular rows of similar guide-'rings or loops secured to the sides of the net.

Lifting-cords e are attached to the bottom of the skirt, one under each row of guide-rings (l, and are passed through the latter and guide-rings c b, thus coming together at the disk A at the center of the canopy, where theymay be suitably united and ornamented by a tassel, D, or other ornamental pendant, which, when the skirt is raised, may be fastened to a bed-post or some other fixture provided for that purpose, thus retaining the skirt of the net in an elevated position until again lowered.

To insure the ready dropping of the skirt, weights E are attached to its bottom at each lifting-cord.

The skirt is secured to the ends at' the radial arms by buttons f passing through the net into the ends of the al'ms, thus not only more iirmly holding it than the hooks I used in my former patent, but also tear ing the net less easily than those hooks.

In tig. 4 I have shown a disk, F, having a central screw-hole, g, into which passes the screw G of the disk A. l

The disk F is permanently secured to the ceiling by means of screws h, and the net, having been passed over the frame, the screw G is passed through disk A and the top of the net into the hole g of disk F, thus securely holding the entire net and fiame in an elevated position. A

By my improved construction and arrangement I ain enabled to gather the skirt at the top, in raising it, much neater and with less. trouble, having to fasten but one cord instead oi' two. I can also much more readily remove any one or more of the radial arms, without being obliged to take the ent-ire device a part,

In somo cases it may be desirable to employ a cordy guides b, arms 1L buttons j, screw G, lifting-cord e,

and skirt C, combined and operating together sublstantially as and for the purpose described.-

To the above I have signed my naine this Sth day of' January, 1870. v

A. M. RODGERS.

Witnesses:

GLADsToNn K. CoMBs, J ons A. WIEDERSHEIM. 

